Hitler's Murderers: The History of the SS

The SS stands for cold-blooded mass murder, unscrupulous terror, inhuman racial delusion and boundless power. Using recently discovered video footage and documents, and interviews with eyewitnesses, Knopp sheds new light on this organization.
During the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre on 30 June 1934, SS commandos murdered the leader of the Sturmabteilung on Hitler's orders. Reichsfuhrer Himmler emerged victorious from the internal power struggle within the SA. Knopp analyses the background to the 'Night of the Long Knives' and portrays both Himmler - commander of the death squads and extermination camps with his penchant for black magic - and Reinhard Heydrich, the 'Blond Beast' who ruthlessly organised the Final Solution.
Knopp also provides new information about the Death's Head units and the Waffen-SS and examines the myths surrounding the mysterious 'Odessa' organisation, one of the organisations that assisted the SS men in their defence, their escape abroad and in building a new civilian life after the war.